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Six questions about the infrastructure Europe depends on.

Each topic takes a word that is widely used and rarely defined, and sets out what we mean by it: the distinctions we find useful, the mistakes we see repeated, how we work on it with partners, and what we will not claim. Each is a position, not a product description. See How to read our claims.

Sovereignty

Can you change it when you need to? Sovereignty as an operational property of a system, not a label on a supplier.

Resilience

What still works when something fails? Resilience as a property of an essential function under a named failure condition.

Early warning

Can you see where it is fragile? Seeing fragility build up across domains before it surfaces as a failure.

Verification

Has it worked outside the lab? Evidence gathered under the conditions that matter, with its limits stated.

Capability transfer

Does the capability stay with you? Capability built into the institution during the work, including the ability to judge.

AI-readiness

Can machines read it the way you intend? Public information that machines do not have to guess about.

The six questions, and the condition that runs beneath all of them, are set out in Six questions we ask.